PWR-100 · Attention & Executive Control

Inhibitory control

Inhibition games are good at training inhibition games. Strong controlled studies do not show that the benefit becomes broader self-control.

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One source of teaching truth

Canonical Power learning unit · TLU-PWR-100

This tutorial teaches the analysis behind a go/no-go record without asking you to perform the task. You will align a neutral cue sequence with a fictional response log, mark responses made when the record says withhold, mark missing responses when the record says respond, calculate both error types separately and write a narrow conclusion. You will not practise inhibition or use the result to judge a person.

Canonical Power page
PWR-100 · Inhibitory control
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Practical authority
Governed non-operational research tutorial; no capability self-practice
Current treatment
Full research tutorial
Research depth
detailed · 4 bound sources
Risk framing
low to moderate
Capability self-practice
No operational capability self-practice; research practicum available
Pathway membership
G-CUR-009

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Explanation is not permission.

This dossier explains the evidence and its limits. It is not a diagnosis, personal recommendation, assessment, clearance, performance promise or training programme. Actionable teaching appears only when the canonical Power record explicitly authorises it.

Complete bounded explanation

What this power means.

Capability to develop or express inhibitory control in a declared context without inheriting broader claims.

What the current evidence supports

People improve on practiced inhibition tasks, but current controlled evidence does not establish a transferable inhibitory-control capability.

How to observe or measure it without overclaiming

Stroop cost, commission errors and stop-signal latency are task-specific research measures; none establishes character, diagnosis or real-world impulse control.

Myth

Install stronger willpower

Metric

Performance on distinct inhibition tasks plus a predeclared life outcome

Boundary

Practice effects cannot establish transferable self-control.

Negative and limiting findings

  • Adaptive inhibition training failed to outperform active controls at post-test or follow-up and produced no near or far transfer.

Claims this evidence cannot support

  • Build unbreakable willpower
  • Cure impulsivity with a game
  • Measure moral self-control
  • Train your brain to say no

Individual tutorial · RESEARCH EXPLORATION

How to learn this Power now.

This tutorial teaches the analysis behind a go/no-go record without asking you to perform the task. You will align a neutral cue sequence with a fictional response log, mark responses made when the record says withhold, mark missing responses when the record says respond, calculate both error types separately and write a narrow conclusion. You will not practise inhibition or use the result to judge a person.

  1. Frame the questionState the capability claim narrowly enough that evidence could support or limit it.
  2. Map the evidenceDistinguish existence, measurement, trainability, retention, transfer, safety and functional value.
  3. Find uncertaintyIdentify small samples, proxy measures, missing controls, null findings and unresolved authority questions.
  4. Compare alternativesConsider competing explanations and what evidence would change the current treatment.
  5. Stay non-operationalUse the record for research literacy only until a separate gate authorises instruction.

Authority boundary: Titan teaches a complete Power-specific research method because operational capability practice is not currently justified. The method is Power-specific; its actionability follows this treatment.

Related Powers: PWR-097 · PWR-098 · PWR-099 · PWR-101

Direct evidence register

Sources that support—and limit—the claim.

Citation roles are explicit. A source may support existence or trainability while simultaneously limiting transfer, certainty, generalisation or safety.

  1. Primary empirical supportLimiting / contrary
    Effects of task repetition but no transfer of inhibitory control training in healthy adults

    Tabea Talanow; Ulrich Ettinger · 2018 · Primary research

  2. Primary empirical supportLimiting / contrary
    No evidence for true training and transfer effects after inhibitory control training in young healthy adults

    Stefan Enge; Alexander Behnke; Monika Fleischhauer; Laura Küttler; Matthias Kliegel; Alexander Strobel · 2014 · Primary research

  3. Primary empirical supportLimiting / contrary
    Putting brain training to the test

    Adrian M Owen; Adam Hampshire; Jessica A Grahn; Robert Stenton; Said Dajani; Alistair S Burns; Robert J Howard; Clive G Ballard · 2010 · Primary research

  4. Primary empirical supportLimiting / contrary
    Effects of Computerized Updating and Inhibition Training in Older Adults: The ACTOP Three-Arm Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Trial

    Amélie Boujut; L V Verty; Sotirios Maltezos; Maxime Lussier; Samia Mellah; Louis Bherer; Sylvie Belleville · 2020 · Primary research

Current teaching and evidence boundary

The next gate remains visible.

No external confirmation is required for the current bounded explainer permission. Guide permission remains not ready; any guide, stronger efficacy, generalisation, protocol, promotion or independent-validation claim requires a new adjudication.

A complete governed research tutorial is available at /tutorials/pwr-100/. It supplies a fictional record-analysis method, worked example, corrections, delayed review and evidence boundary. It does not authorise capability self-practice.